How to Piece a Bears Claw Quilt Block

I hope you’re ready to have some fun piecing a Bears Claw quilt block for the Friendship Quilt Along! This block includes lots of tiny half square triangles to make the “claws” and a super scrappy border. Learn how to piece this quilt block in this new quilting tutorial:

Click Here to find the pattern for this Bear’s Claw Quilt Block. Remember, you can join the Friendship Quilt Along anytime and work at your own pace. The videos and patterns will remain online forever so you can work at your own pace.

This is another scrappy block with lots of half square triangles. Click Here to learn how to make your half square triangles.

The extra border to the outer edge really makes this block pop.

We’re now officially halfway down with our Friendship Quilt Along! Remember, you can join in the fun at any time as all the patterns and video tutorials will be online forever. The best part about our Quilt Along is you can make a crib, throw, twin, queen, and king size quilt!

Let’s go quilt,

Leah Day

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LeahDay

Leah Day has been teaching online since 2009. She's the creator of the Free Motion Quilting Project, a blog filled with thousands of quilting tutorial videos. Leah has written several books including 365 Free Motion Quilting Designs, Explore Walking Foot Quilting with Leah Day, and Mally the Maker and the Queen in the Quilt.

2 Responses

  1. Laurie Benzie says:

    I finally finished piecing my 2 “Bear’s Paw” (I’ve never seen a bear with 8 claws per paw, LOL) block last night. Not sure why I had so much trouble with this block, it seemed simple enough but I ripped several times and ended up with some odd looking border triangles as I could not get it to line up properly! Not ripping any more! Going to quilt them and love the imperfections or design elements as I call them. Looking forward to the next block and hopefully it will not give me any grief, LOL. I do have a question, is there any reason why we shouldn’t start connecting some blocks? I’m making a king and have blocks completed for 2 of my rows.

    • LeahDay says:

      LOL! I didn’t even think about making it realistic. I just went a bit crazy with the HSTs! I’m so sorry you struggled with this one. The sizing was a bit weird and I tried to make that clear in the pattern. Yes, less ripping and more fun quilting!

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